Skyline_BNR34 wrote:
acrossthelines wrote:
Skyline_BNR34 wrote:
Acrossthelines, I'm just wondering this, did you used to play an instrument at all before?
I played guitar when I was 12-14 but ended up just playing it less... and less... and less. I think I needed that outlet for a while to let some things out, and when I didn't need it anymore that was that. My younger brother is excellent at guitar, though, and he's only been playing for about a year.
Now I just play random songs on my ten-year-old brother's keyboard all the time, but I don't think that counts because I have not the slightest idea which key is which, though I do know their sounds. Can't read music to save my life, either.
Why do you ask?
Just because you always say Taylor Swift is flat as can be while singing.
And to anyone who hasn't a slightest idea how to read music, or has never really had a background of playing an instrument for a long time, like orchestra instruments, it is very hard to tell or even hear the pitch problems some might have, because when you have to play in a band you learn how to hear things differently.
While it's possible, many people have no idea if they are flat or sharp, even if you really think they are, just because their ears just are not used to slight differences.
I'm not saying I have perfect pitch because I don't, but every time I've listened to a live version of Taylor Swift I think she sounds fine and is singing in the right key, I mean it is a live performance so even then it won't be perfect pitch anyways.
You really want to hear bad live performances of some of the greatest bands of all time. Just find some of those 80's band and listen to some of their live shows when the singer is drunk as can be.
Van Halen has some good ones on youtube, Ozzy has some, Kiss probably has some good ones, even some of SRV's live stuff he messes up sining, and a wrong note on the guitar.
Though Taylor Swift wasn't flat the whole time tonight, when trying to hit certain notes, there it was. I just rewatched her performance on YouTube (they're so fast, yeesh), and she doesn't do as well with the lower ones. Also, random, she seems tall and that makes me happy because I'm tall, though I wonder if that is because she actually is tall or if it is because the vast majority of performers are short.
Her voice actually reminds me a lot of Sheryl Crow's; it's just a bit deeper. I don't like Sheryl's voice, either, though I haven't really seen anything of her live, so I can't make a judgment call there.
I don't think that the fact that the lead singers of hair bands in the '80s were off key when they were drunk has much to do with Taylor Swift.
I understand your point in bringing them up, but that to me doesn't make TS any better; it just makes them worse. To be truly great, you've gotta give your absolute best every night and not do things that compromise your show like that. Their purpose wasn't to be great performers, though.
I watched a video of Taylor Swift and I agree she was flat in the beginning of it, probably due to being nervous, which most 20 year olds would be nervous, and she has admitted to being nervous in larger venues. But before the halfway mark of the song she was fine and sounded great.
You gotta remember she is still young and gets nervous easily, nerves are still a huge factor for someone who is 20 who is very popular.
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